Jerry Andrus quotes

Jerry Andrus quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.”
-- Jerry Andrus

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“I can fool you because you're a human. You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we're fooled, the mind hasn't made a mistake. It's come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason.”
-- Jerry Andrus

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“We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.”
-- Jerry Andrus

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“If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician. If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being.”
-- Jerry Andrus

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“My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.”
“Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.”
“The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.”
“Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.”
“That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.203, Simon and Schuster
“Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.”

Source : "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.
“Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”
“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

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